Sunset District

The Sunset District is an affluent neighborhood in west-central San Francisco, California. Before the construction of the Twin Peaks Tunnel in 1871, the district was sparsely inhabited and full of sand dunes and coastal scrub, but development was initiated in the 1870s and 1880s with the construction of Golden Gate Park. Small lots and row homes were built into the sand dunes, and the Sunset was built into a streetcar suburb during the 1930s. In the post-World War II boom of the 1950s, the sand dunes were leveled down and replaced with more single and multifamily homes. By 2015, the Sunset had a population of 85,252 people.